This fall the Ithaca College School of Music began live streaming its concerts. The Internet service was a big hit, with many parents writing in to say how much they enjoyed it.

Major General Arthur Bartell wasn’t able to attend his son’s concert during Family Weekend because he was deployed to Iraq, but he was able to watch the live web stream. He wrote to Greg Woodward,...

The Ithaca College Wind Ensemble, conducted by music performance professor Stephen Peterson, performed John Corigliano’s “Circus Maximus” at Cornell University’s Bailey Hall in February. The piece — which employs a marching band, two sirens, and a shotgun, among more traditional instruments — is designed to create an...